The Political Gabfest: The "Are You on Hillary's Hit List?" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Planet Money co-founder Adam Davidson. This week: The Clintons, the vanishing middle class, and AOL chief Tim Armstrong's "distressed babies" comment. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Stamps.com.
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0:17.8	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 14th, 2014. The Are You on a
0:33.3	Hillary's hit list edition? I'm David Plotz, the editor oforf Slate, alone in Slate's Washington, D.C.
0:38.5	studio. Your ears are not betraying you. That was new theme music you just heard. After eight
0:44.0	years of our old theme, we decided it was time for change. Our new theme, it's buoyant. To me,
0:50.6	it's evocative of the Clash is London Calling. So the beginning of it.
0:55.4	Really? Yeah, it is. It really is.
0:57.0	Huh.
0:57.4	Our old theme by our former colleague, Jonathan Epstein, served us well. It was noble.
1:02.2	Jonathan, wherever you are out there, thank you for a great run.
1:06.3	We have a special podcast for you this week. A very special podcast.
1:09.9	We three, as usual, are here. So we have Emily Bazelon in New York, Slate Senior Editor. Hello, Emily.
1:15.8	Hey, David.
1:16.9	And John Dickerson from some point southern in a hotel somewhere, Slate chief political correspondent. Hello, John.
1:23.2	Hello, David.
1:24.2	And we have a very special guest. I'm going to say special a lot.
1:28.2	It is Adam Davidson, a giant of radio and podcasting.
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